US composer gets in on the inauguration
mainAlthough no classical artists have appearently been included in Biden-Harris showtime, the composer Peter Boyer has been commissioned by the United States Marine Band to compose a special fanfare for the Inauguration of President Joe Biden at the U.S. Capitol on January 20.
Titled ‘Fanfare for Tomorrow’, it will feature in a one-hour prelude music to the Inauguration, conducted by the Marine Band’s Director, Colonel Jason K. Fettig.
This is hilarious! All the talk about how Trump was a Philistine and then classical musicians for Biden Harris except a fanfare. What does that make our good Democrats I wonder? Arch-Philistines?
In the interim between elections, classical music has been exposed for its non-woke origins. I doubt whether Joe or Kamala listen to classical music (I think Kamala loves her some Tupac from her college days LOL), but I’m sure the music of white privilege will have no place in this administration.
“I think Kamala loves her some Tupac from her college days LOL”
Kamala Harris is much older than you seem to think (a mistake I too have made). Her entire higher education was done by the end of the 1980s, and before Tupac Shakur’s career even started.
Since you ‘went there’, neither Biden or Harris will publicly make fun of people with handicaps and deformities. They probably won’t do that privately either. Biden won’t insult and call names at the wives of his cohorts, the way 45 frequently made a habit of doing. Biden might be ‘sleepy’, but he won’t get up and speak to his sycophants for hours, about how kitchen appliances are waaaay behind, and how he’s gong to sue the Sharpie company for making a faulty product. And on and on and on it goes – much of it far worst than those things I mention. But you folks who think he was the right choice for the job, like to forget all of that. Who the hell cares if there’s classical music at an inauguration, Democrat or Republican.
Thanks, Barry – I agree 1000%.
An example of his work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh16KedaBjA
Music to storm the Senate by. Those Patriots might have proved overwhelming had they brought this soundtrack along with.
I don’t know why Hollywood still records soundtracks (not music), it is always the same thing, like canned soup. Much cheaper to produce if you create an algorithm able to write those soundtracks (again, not much music in there).
In other words they wanted classical elevator mood musak for the inauguration. Can’t they just play Telemann or French music?
That’s not a fair assessment. he’s an American populist composer in the best sense of the term. Music is a huge tent – remember that.
‘The President’s Own’ United States Marine Band is among America’s premier musical ensembles. It contains graduates from many leading universities and conservatoires. The band has a rigorous and demanding audition process and maintains the highest musical standards. For any composer to receive a commission from this organisation is a high honour. I would encourage SD readers to listen and watch some of the work of this band on YouTube. They are first class musicians.
And the Marine band always plays at Inaugurations, regardless of which party is being sworn.
I have listened to them on YouTube. They are brilliant.
Should be a soviet socialist composer or March Funebre
What is the connection?
Yes, good idea, a funeral march to mourn the nearly 400,000 souls who have died of COVID due to the outgoing administration’s criminally negligent dereliction of duty.
Didn’t we just have four years of Marche funèbre?
Cuomo is still in office.
His Marxist rule murdered thousands of helpless nursing home patients.
https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-new-york-andrew-cuomo-elections-nursing-homes-5212e305921c250eb6cba4f6f246fc4d
Oh, get over it. He lost — FAIR AND SQUARE. All you Banana Republicans are currently wishing the US was Uganda, and behaving like it was.
And if you think the Democrats, or even THESE Democrats, are remotely like socialists, you are even more ignorant that I thought.
how utterly rude
Ich lach mich tot!
Helene honey, do you know what a reality check is?!
Hillary and her KKKlan had the ultimate “reality check” in 2016 to use as an example.
Note the violent snowflake riots reported by ABC
https://youtu.be/LRZhWQ71qdU
while you are laching yourself tot, why not impeach yourself honey
Hilarious that you’re offended by THIS comment but not by the laughable suggestion that the incoming administration has anything whatever to do with socialism. Truly rich.
Heh, heh…
https://theduran.com/uganda-bans-twitter-for-election-meddling-twitter-cries-censorship/
Your boy Trump will be out of a job tomorrow.
But I’m sure you can follow his future exploits on all those syndicated courtroom programs!
MAGA = More Assholes Getting Arrested
It never ends well for the cult leader, as history has shown over and over.
It is befitting for the following composers to share their musical voices in the continuum of history. Looking forward to the music of Peter Boyer, Jim Stephenson, Kimberly Archer and Adolphus Hailstork. (I can safely share that Jim is in the process of composing his first Piano Concerto, which we have delayed due to Covid, and will present in 2022; one of the others listed here will be writing a new work for me for 2023-24-25, and we will reveal this at the appropriate time). Regardless of one’s political stance, music will continue and we will make sure it evolves as a testament of our time in history.
Thank you, Jeffrey. And more specifically the prelude program will also include Adolphus Hailstork’s Fanfare on Amazing Grace as well as the world premieres of Fanfare for Democracy by James Stephenson and Fanfare Politeia by Kimberly Archer:
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Portals/175/Docs/Presidential%20Inauguration%202021/2021%20Inaugural%20Prelude%20Program.pdf?ver=u-JGUarXxKHx3c99O8ngsQ%3d%3d
https://composerjim.com/works/fanfare-for-democracy/
https://www.thetelegraph.com/insider/article/Inauguration-features-music-by-SIUE-teacher-15879393.php
The inaugural ceremony itself will include Integrity March and Fanfare from No Finer Calling by Julie Giroux, a work originally written to honor the US Air Force:
https://www.marineband.marines.mil/Portals/175/Docs/Presidential%20Inauguration%202021/2021%20Inaugural%20Ceremony%20Program.pdf?ver=JAbyPKHrMBAtVsrsBdbe7A%3d%3d
http://www.musicapropria.com/musicpages/no_finer_calling.html
Boyer has written some Coplandesque music in the past. He’s thus a good choice for this commission.
So a marchin’ band of crayon eating mercenaries couldn’t find a female composer of color to honor? I guess the patriarchy wins again.
Mr. Lebrecht, The musicians of the US Marine Band are indeed “classical artists.” Almost all of them graduated from a school of music, and the band plays lot of classical music and wind music written for wind ensemble as well as chamber music and of course transcriptions. They don’t have to be “hired” to play though if you want to nit-pick my point. I’ve always thought you should hire someone who knows the classical music scene in the USA.
Do they have Wagner tubas or euphoniums in the marine band?
Today is the 60th anniversary of the premiere of Leonard Bernstein’s Fanfare for the Inauguration of John F. Kennedy: https://www.leonardbernstein.com/works/view/254/fanfare-for-the-inauguration-of-john-f-kennedy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCCELxO6rPg
And tomorrow is the 60th anniversary of the inauguration itself.
Violinist Patricia Treacy is playing at the Inauguration.
couldn’t they find a ‘name’ violinist?
The original version of Peter Boyer’s Fanfare for Tomorrow can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG0Bh-sUqso&ab_channel=CSOvideo
and the story of how he expanded it for the 59th US Presidential Inauguration here: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-01-20/biden-inauguration-fanfare-peter-boyer-composer
The performance of James Stephenson’s Fanfare for Democracy at the 59th US Presidential Inauguration can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L59vty93Ol0
and another Zoom-mediated performance can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOtVQbLBkDc
Finally, there is this local news interview with Kimberly Archer about the composition of her Fanfare Politeia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOtVQbLBkDc